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CVE-2018-18521
medium
Description
Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by eu-ranlib, because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html